Here's everything we know about what police did and didn’t do in Uvalde
Law-enforcement officers gather outside of Robb Elementary School following the mass shooting there on May 24, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. Photo: Brandon Bell/Getty Images On Tuesday morning, a gunman armed with an AR-15 walked into Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and opened fire in a fourth-grade classroom, killing at least 19 children and two teachers.
A school resource officer and multiple police officers were stationed outside Robb Elementary when Ramos arrived. In a press conference on Wednesday, Texas Department of Public Safety director Steven McCraw said a school resource officer — the Uvalde City School District reportedly retains its own police department, “staffed with a chief, five cops, and a security guard,” according to the Intercept — “engaged” Ramos as he approached Robb Elementary’s back door.
By the time police and state troopers arrived at the school, Public Safety Department lieutenant Chris Olivarez told the Today show, they could hear gunshots coming from inside the building. Ramos had “barricaded himself inside” the classroom, Olivarez said, and “began shooting numerous children and teachers that were in that classroom, having no regard for human life.
Per the Post, radio transmissions from a channel used by EMS workers show one official told first responders to “Please, just stay back,” at 11:53 a.m. About an hour later, another warning went out on the radio channel: “Do not attempt to get closer.” Police had reportedly set up their perimeter by then.
Video circulating on social media suggests some officers may have been otherwise engaged. In the footage, officers appear to have pinned a bystander to the ground in the parking lot outside the school, while colleagues in tactical gear walk around, trying to corral the crowd away from crime-scene tape. But once officers did make it into the elementary school, the shooting reportedly did not end immediately.
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